{"product_id":"used-ordinary-grace-1","title":"Used - Ordinary Grace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHot Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family—which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother—he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrdinary Grace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publish date - 2013 - used paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53579667210550,"sku":null,"price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/IMG-4008.heic?v=1768755655","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/used-ordinary-grace-1","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}